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Folio: recently released its B-to-B CEO survey results, chock full of data and stats from 234 B2B publishers. For your convenience, here are the most interesting stats that subscription site execs will want to know: Both small ( However, when comparing online content, events, data sales, and print content, both large and small publishers said online content and events were the most profitable areas for them (see chart below). At the same time, 36% of smaller publishers and…

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that each school would be investing $30 million (yep, that’s $60 million total) in creating free online education courses.As some of you may know, online education sites like Lynda.com and ArtistWorks.com are some of the hottest paid content niches out there. So competition from universities willing to provide educational content free of charge may give subscription site professionals reason to pause.On the one…

The Dallas Morning News revealed it has reached 49,000 paying subscribers, according to Q1 disclosures released this week. That should translate into an estimated $5.8 million in subscription revenues this year, if their subscription numbers don’t drop (and even more money if they increase). That’s an impressive number of paying digital subscribers for a local paper, especially considering the fact that The Boston Globe has only 18,000 paying digital subscribers (and an estimated $3 million in…

BostonGlobe.com’s paywall doesn’t seem to be the rainmaker it is for its parent company, The New York Times. Recent reports of BostonGlobe.com’s free trial offer (April 24 – May 6) allowed me to take a closer looks at the company’s conversion and revenues. It turns out that Beantown’s flagship news outlet has only been able to convert 18,000 readers into paying subscribers since instituting a paywall last September. With 6.2 million unique visitors in 2011, that…